One thing I can tell you from my exerience as a former NYPD cop, calls for help always get priority treatment. With rare exception everyone drops the coffee containers in their laps that are sitting on the dashboard and respond immediately. ALL cops always respond to an Officer in Distress, a man with a gun, a child in distress, and a woman screams for help in an instant. There is always a lazy cop that might not take it serious, but there were many other cops that should have made the attempt if the message was broadcast over the radio.
What usually happens when the dispatcher doesn't have more specific information is the cops will get on the air and badger the dispatcher for more information : do you have any more information, central?
My information is it is the State Park Police the call may have been channeled to. That doesn't mean SCPD wouldn't join in. The SCPD sure spent a lot of time at the Oak Beach Inn when the owner was in a year's long fight with Suffolk County.
I would like to give you an example on how SCPD responds by re-visiting the case of the SIL.
On the early morning on 7/30/00 there were two reported burglaries that came to the attention of the SCPD. One was the silent alarm emitted from a Harbour Collision, Jericho Tpke, St.James and the other was that of a burglary at Jiffy Lube, or right next door to Harbour. It appears as though HQ didn't dispatch a car to Harbour, but sent one out for a burglary when an unkown 911 caller said he saw 2 men in the Jiffy Lube bay area, and one had a gun. SCPD was there in a minute, and more than one car responded.
This would mean that two different teams of burglars committed a burglary on a quiet street at the same time and were not connected to each other. As the cars responded to Jiffy Lube the dispatcher told the cars about the other burglary alarm. Instructed them to check .it out as long as they were there. Said they held the Harbour job
The Jiffy Lube job came from an anonymous person that called it in when he said he just passed the Jiffy Lube, the alarm was ringing and there were two men in there, one with a gun. Why a BS burglary would go into a Jiffy Lube and brandish a gun at 1am is a mystery to me. The call was listed as anonymous. As it wasn't a critical call, dispatch never bothered to trace the call to the caller. I saw nothing wrong with that. BUT what I did learn from someone in the DA office who was no longer there that it was routine to trace such calls if it was important. There are still certain codes generated from such a call that could identify the caller. That was in 2000, and I am sure the 911 system has accounted for such calls in a more direct manner.
In 2003-2004, or when they investigated the SIL case the identity of the caller did become VERY Important! SCPD and Spota never bothered to identify the caller, even though my source told me they have done so years later if there was a need.
After much study of the case I came to the conclusion the 911 caller was a resident of the area and the alarm was exceedingly loud. He believed the cops wouldn't come to have the alarm shut off and so he added in there was a man with a gun, which is ridiculous considering the circumstances.
The caller COULDN'T HAVE seen a man in JF with a gun and the alarm ringing is because the alarm didn't go off until the burglars were interrupted by two gals that made a wrong turn and went into the parking lot to make a u-turn and testified they saw two men in the store. They also gave statements to the police in 2000 that the alarm began ringing after they saw the two burglars running to an alarmed door to exit the premises and the alarm BEGAN ringing after the wheels of the car hit the street, and believed they exited the door, thus, causiing the alarm to go off. This was all done in a matter of 30 seconds or less. It tells me it was IMPOSSIBLE for the caller to have seen two men in the store, with a gun and the alarm ringing because the alarm DIDN't begin to ring until AFTER the burlargs left the store.
The reason why I continue to re-visit the SIL incident is to show you good folks that the SCPD/DA will lie or withold the truth when it suits their purposes.
After the trial I attempted to interview one of the gals. She was then 25, and adult who was with her mother. I only had one question I needed to at least satisfy my curiosity. When I asked her that question they both bolted into the house and said they couldn't speak to me. I later learned her father was a retired ATF Agent now working for the NYS Insurance Dept, and agency created and staffed by SCPD retired personnel. The father's assignment while an ATF agent was on a Joint Task force with SCPD.
What was so difficult about answering a simple question: when did the alarm begin to ring.
If you think SCPD/DA would lie about my case to get a conviction or hide the truth what do you think they will do with the Gilgo Case and the 911 call?